Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show. Alberta will go its own way

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00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I am indeed Corey Morgan. This is my hour every week with the Western Standard where I cover some news, get some ranting out and talk to interesting guests who offer us insight on all sorts of issues. And today is no exception is a good show. I got Dan McTeague coming on a little while. He's with Canadians for Affordable Energy, or you might know more for gasbuddy.com.

00:00:58.820 He did a lot of work as, you know, pointing people in the right direction to find good prices at the pump for gasoline and a lot of work analyzing fuel prices, energy prices, things such as that. And of course, it's a big issue going on right now.

00:01:12.520 As well, I put that as the afterthought. He was actually a liberal member of parliament back in the day. These were pre-Trudeau days. And if you've seen Mr. McTeague's commentary these days, he's not a big fan of the Trudeau liberals. He's of more of the old stock when liberals were still somewhat sane versus the ideological lunatics we have under Prime Minister Hammerhead.

00:01:35.440 So let's get on to speaking of, you know, the actions of Prime Minister Trudeau and some of the things his government has done and some of the stuff that's really been hitting the fan out in the West lately this week.

00:01:47.660 So the words, her words were loaded and uncompromised. So when the Western Standards, Nigel Hannaford at a press conference the other day asked Premier Daniel Smith what she will do to fend off the proposed federal incursion into Alberta's jurisdiction with electrical generation,

00:02:04.120 she finished her answer basically saying, we will go our own way. That's her own words.

00:02:09.760 Now, Smith isn't saying the government's going to pursue an independence referendum in Alberta anytime soon, but she's well aware too that her statement left room for people to take that as an unspoken threat.

00:02:20.420 Alberta's premier is an experienced and skilled communicator. Her choice of words was no mistake.

00:02:25.740 Now, in the near future, Alberta will go its own way with the current plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050, no matter what Ottawa thinks.

00:02:32.800 The goalposts, though, are 15 years apart, whereas, you know, Gilboa wants to reach that goal at 2035.

00:02:41.560 And there's little indication that Gilboa or Smith are willing to even entertain the notion of changing their targets.

00:02:46.740 So this battle is just beginning. Now, Gilboa is following the typical liberal playbook.

00:02:51.020 He's slapping down the West to win support in the East.

00:02:54.400 The net zero electric generation targets are going to be easily met in Ontario and Quebec,

00:02:58.000 where they're rich in hydroelectric resources and they have nuclear reactors.

00:03:02.800 The 2035 net zero target for Alberta, though, is utterly impossible to reach without crippling Alberta's economy and threatening domestic energy security.

00:03:11.560 Right now, fossil fuel supplies almost 80 percent of the province's energy needs.

00:03:15.460 And that can't change that much in 12 short years.

00:03:18.740 The province has no major rivers to dam.

00:03:20.960 And the way Canada works, it would take decades to get a large scale nuclear power generation plant up and running if it was ever even approved.

00:03:28.300 I mean, despite years and billions in investment in solar and wind generation projects,

00:03:32.460 they still only supply a small percentage of the Alberta power grid.

00:03:35.680 And they'll always need to be backed up with gas generators for the days when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.

00:03:41.460 It does happen.

00:03:42.640 Smith can't bend on that.

00:03:44.120 And she won't bend.

00:03:45.240 And Gilboa won't budge either.

00:03:46.480 So what next?

00:03:47.560 Well, this battle's surely going to head to Canada's courts and it'll move at the typical glacial pace.

00:03:52.480 So it's going to be a war fought in slow motion with plenty of heated rhetoric as the challenges creep through the system.

00:03:59.800 Eventually, the Supreme Court will rule on the dispute and it will rule in favor of the Liberal government.

00:04:05.360 I mean, the Constitution's little more than a set of suggestions when it comes to protecting Alberta's constitutional authority and jurisdiction and energy generation.

00:04:13.280 We established that when the Supreme Court upheld the carbon tax.

00:04:16.340 The court is stacked.

00:04:17.560 And when it feels that it's in the public good, particularly Central Canada's public good,

00:04:23.580 you know, when it feels it's better to step on Alberta's rights in that case, it'll step on Alberta's rights every time.

00:04:28.740 Now, Premier Smith is saying she's willing to pull out all the stops to stop Ottawa's incursion upon the province.

00:04:34.400 Now, time will tell if she really means it, though.

00:04:36.660 Because once the battle is finished in the courts and Alberta has lost,

00:04:39.900 the federal government will then move on to the punitive stage if we don't cooperate out here in the West.

00:04:43.980 They'll cut transfer payments as they demand capitulation and the impact of Albertans will be harsh.

00:04:49.900 We'll be starved of the transfers of our own money back to us.

00:04:53.400 At this point, there's only going to be one thing that will make Ottawa back off.

00:04:57.600 Alberta needs to begin the process of truly going its own way.

00:05:00.540 No doublespeak, no veiled threats.

00:05:02.380 Alberta needs to work towards invoking a referendum on independence under the Clarity Act.

00:05:06.260 The only other option is a surrender to the Trudeau Liberals,

00:05:10.260 and that would only open the door, of course, to more incursions who might as well just give up having a provincial government.

00:05:14.880 No, I don't expect Premier Smith to start threatening a move towards provincial independence, at least not yet.

00:05:20.000 Most Albertans would still prefer to see the standoff somehow settled within Confederation, or at least for now.

00:05:26.180 Once all the legal challenges have failed and all of the tools have been taken out of the toolbox, used and broken,

00:05:31.720 only one path is going to remain, and that's the path to full independence.

00:05:35.180 Now, time will tell whether Premier Smith is going to be willing to take that path.

00:05:40.080 She is the most independence-minded, inclined Premier Alberta's had to date, though,

00:05:44.720 so we've got some interesting times ahead of us.

00:05:48.200 All right, so that's kind of where I'm setting the stage today.

00:05:50.480 We've got an interesting fall coming along in politics, as always.

00:05:53.740 So let's get in with our news editor, Dave Naylor, though, and see what else is happening out there in the world for our check-in.

00:06:00.720 Hey, Dave, how are you doing?

00:06:02.100 I'm doing okay, Corey. How are you handling the heat?

00:06:05.180 Oh, I like it. I love heat. Bring it on.

00:06:08.340 I thought you were more of a winter guy.

00:06:10.560 No, I despise winter. Jane likes the cooler weather, yes. You've heard me whine about winter enough to know how much I hate it.

00:06:17.520 I had a laugh this week on some of the other media's headlines where it's, oh, heat warning, you know, temperatures to soar, take precautions.

00:06:26.280 It's going up to 30 degrees, and it's summer. Like, what do people expect? It's summer.

00:06:32.200 Well, it seems this is the first time ever. I mean, they act like it, don't they?

00:06:35.240 I remember many 30-degree days when I was a kid, too. I'd still be kicked out of the house and have to deal with it. I survived.

00:06:41.400 Exactly. Come back when the sun's going down.

00:06:43.980 One group of people, Corey, that's not having a very good time this summer right now is in the Northwest Territories, and that's where some of our news focus has been this morning.

00:06:56.320 And RCMP charged some kids starting an arson fire up there, and that's sort of continuing along the way that Alberta went and parts of B.C. where all these fires break out.

00:07:09.740 And then it turns out, you know, it's not climate change. It's actually arson.

00:07:14.600 So we've got the story up there with some RCMP-supplied video of the kids setting the fire.

00:07:21.160 The fire itself is now within 16 kilometers of Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories.

00:07:29.260 So things there are tense, and, you know, they're praying for some rain, but I don't think it's coming.

00:07:37.580 Also praying for rain are the people down near Pincher Creek.

00:07:41.180 That area is the latest in Alberta to be declared a disaster area for the crops because of the lack of rain.

00:07:51.160 We've got a story from our business expert, Sean Polzer, on how the influx of people moving here from other places in Canada has kept the Calgary housing market booming.

00:08:08.220 House prices in Vancouver and Toronto compared to Calgary. Calgary is about half the price.

00:08:14.520 And we've got a story on, if you remember, Corey, during the pandemic, the Liberals had all these ventilators stored away, spent like hundreds of millions of dollars on them, never used.

00:08:26.480 Well, now apparently a lot of them have been given to the Ukraine to help in their war effort.

00:08:32.820 So that's what we've got up now. Coming up shortly, we've got a former NBA player musing about throwing on a wig and joining the Women's League, as men are doing a lot of women's sports these days to try and mock gender.

00:08:48.820 And he figures he could score 60 points a game in the Women's League.

00:08:53.440 And he's seven foot tall, Corey, so I wouldn't put it past him.

00:08:57.480 And Mr. Polzer's got a story coming up on Germany, desperate for natural gas, buying it from other places in the world.

00:09:05.440 Because as Prime Minister Trudeau said, no business market here for it, Corey. None at all.

00:09:11.020 Wonderful. Well, I guess one bright side, maybe the WNBA will finally get a little bit of a bump in its ratings. 1.00

00:09:18.580 Yeah, they're not very good. And hey, speaking of women's sports, shout out to the English women's soccer team made the final. 1.00

00:09:27.340 It's England's first World Cup final since 1966. So we're all going to have to get up early Sunday morning in the middle of the night and watch that game.

00:09:35.220 I look forward to you telling me how it went.

00:09:38.160 You know I will.

00:09:39.040 All right. Thanks, Dave.

00:09:41.020 Take care, Corey.

00:09:42.340 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. As you can hear, there are lots of things.

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00:09:52.500 There are no other news sites in the West or I think in Canada that are really putting up that much news content, our own content.

00:10:00.040 We have reporters. We have columnists. Those pieces are getting up there.

00:10:03.320 The reason we can do that, guys, is because of subscribers. We're independent media.

00:10:07.760 We've been banned. Well, I wouldn't say banned, but we can't put our stuff on Facebook anymore.

00:10:13.000 You know, the battle is going on with Ottawa because they're trying to bail out their legacy media buddies.

00:10:17.040 We're not with that bunch, but we need subscribers to do it.

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00:10:42.100 We don't have to let the government dictate how media is going to work in this new and changing world with things.

00:10:48.540 And yeah, we cover some fun and interesting stories. That NBA one's interesting.

00:10:52.840 We saw that in Canada recently with, I guess it was a female power lifter or, you know, a former male power. 0.80

00:11:00.160 I can't keep up with the terms anymore.

00:11:03.440 You know, I know trans doesn't bother me. I'm not as hung up on it with some other people.

00:11:07.160 Hey, if that's your thing, good for you. Right on.

00:11:09.140 I will certainly refer to anybody by whatever gender pronouns they prefer once they've told me or whatever, things like that.

00:11:14.380 But we can't keep trying to deny physiological realities. That's where the problem hits.

00:11:21.040 We can't pretend that there's not a physiological advantage when somebody's entering women's sports if they were initially biologically a male.

00:11:30.780 There's just no pretending. You know, they're asking us to set aside reality.

00:11:36.020 And it's unfair. It's unfair to the women who trained so hard, who put that time in to try and compete. 1.00

00:11:42.700 You know, we see that in the swimming and now we're seeing with power lifting, of course.

00:11:47.220 I don't know. Reality's got to sink in.

00:11:49.400 And the thing is, what it does is it sparks up with the absurdity when you the activists push into areas like that is the backlash ends up hitting other people who just want to live their lives and move on.

00:11:59.660 You know, it adds to the division and actually generates some of the hate because there are some hateful people out there. 0.83

00:12:04.420 But it's just getting ridiculous. So maybe, though, you know, I'm sure it's a bit tongue in cheek. 0.87

00:12:10.040 But if an NBA individual is talking about popping into the WNBA and taking part, well, maybe it helps expose a little bit of just, you know, how stupid it's getting, guys. 0.94

00:12:21.380 I'm not seeing any people who are born biologically female trying to get into the NFL. 0.91

00:12:25.820 For some reason, it just doesn't seem to work out, even though apparently biologically they're the same.

00:12:29.860 It doesn't seem to happen. All right. We get those stories.

00:12:33.220 The other one is, yeah, with Yellowknife, you know, and Arthur Green was covering that.

00:12:36.680 He's always covering a lot of stuff up in Edmonton and our other stuff.

00:12:40.280 We're seeing that a lot. We're seeing that these fires, yes, they're unusual this year.

00:12:43.680 They're high. But what's also high is once they investigate the amount that were set by people.

00:12:48.880 And the legacy media is jumping all over Premier Smith because she wouldn't jump on the global warming bandwagon with it. 0.99

00:12:54.200 She pointed out that we've got an arson problem and we do.

00:12:57.480 Ooh, we found that in Yellowknife. Yes, here, yet again, more arsonists behind it.

00:13:03.180 Now, the bush is tender dry and we are in the midst of a bad drought throughout the West right now.

00:13:09.540 So, I mean, it's going to burn harder and hotter and we can debate the rationale behind it.

00:13:13.840 But it's not spontaneous combustion, guys.

00:13:17.080 We've had people getting behind it. The earth isn't boiling.

00:13:20.820 But it is hot right now. Don't light fires in the trees.

00:13:23.980 So, either way, I hope for the best for people.

00:13:26.880 But, you know, we will report on those things even if legacy media doesn't want to talk about it because those are the facts.

00:13:32.060 And those are press conferences. That wasn't a theory coming out of Yellowknife.

00:13:35.200 I saw that. That was a press conference from the RCMP in Yellowknife.

00:13:38.880 Yes, they'd arrested four guys for lighting the fires up there.

00:13:41.360 So, let's just point to where the problems really are. 1.00

00:13:46.400 Speaking of problems, speaking of stupid. I love speaking of stupid. 1.00

00:13:49.100 It's one of my favorite subjects and there's never a short pool to draw from when it comes to our federal government. 1.00

00:13:55.540 So, Export Development Canada. I saw this gem. This is beautiful.

00:13:58.380 So, they are unsure of recovering millions it loaned for aircraft engines to a Mexican airline.

00:14:07.480 So, a startup little domestic airline in Mexico, I guess they wanted to get some airplanes.

00:14:14.040 They needed the engines. So, what do we do?

00:14:15.920 They gave our Canadian tax dollars to this Mexican airline.

00:14:20.280 Said, here, we'll lend you that because, you know, we know that your credit risk is low, right?

00:14:24.480 And you can run that great Mexican airline business.

00:14:27.680 There's no corruption or incompetence in Mexico.

00:14:29.940 You know, that doesn't happen down there.

00:14:31.580 Well, lo and behold, they've gone broke.

00:14:33.400 Now, why would they take millions of Canadian tax dollars, and they still haven't disclosed how many,

00:14:37.900 and give them to a Mexican airline startup?

00:14:40.940 Well, of course, all roads always lead to Quebec when it comes to business subsidies.

00:14:44.240 It was Pratt & Whitney that was manufacturing these engines, which is based, of course, in Quebec.

00:14:52.100 So, it's not enough just to take our money from productive regions, such as Alberta, Saskatchewan, 0.55

00:14:58.300 and dump it into Quebec, the unproductive, the parasites of the country, 1.00

00:15:01.840 and into things like Bombardier and Pratt & Whitney. 0.56

00:15:05.220 It's not enough just to give the money to those companies, 0.98

00:15:07.280 because even with all those subsidies, obviously their products are crap,

00:15:10.300 because the only way we can get people to buy them is to give them the money to buy our products. 0.58

00:15:14.600 Brilliant. Just brilliant.

00:15:17.260 And so now, these engines, who knows where they are?

00:15:19.760 They probably melted them down in Mexico and sold them for some pesos and moved back into the drug cartels,

00:15:24.660 where there's more, you know, less corruption than dealing with the Canadian government.

00:15:28.940 This is our tax dollars at work. This is what happens.

00:15:31.780 We see this all over. I mean, people keep talking about that.

00:15:35.180 Look, guys, the solution is less government. It's less.

00:15:38.100 We need government out of the way. You want to help the economy.

00:15:41.180 It's not going to be through government trying to pick winners and losers and micromanaging

00:15:44.420 and taking money from the productive and giving it to the useless.

00:15:48.320 But we keep trying.

00:15:50.700 And this happens on the city level.

00:15:52.680 We saw this a while back when Mayor Nahed Nenshi was in charge of Calgary.

00:15:57.380 We had Calgary Economic Development.

00:15:59.360 You know, they give it a nice little name, make it sound like a Chamber of Commerce or something like that.

00:16:02.120 But no, what it is, is a crown, an arm's length corporation set up by the city of Calgary

00:16:08.760 that was given a hundred million dollars slush fund to try and draw business to the city.

00:16:14.260 As far as I could tell, they had rocket space downtown, which went broke after a few months

00:16:17.900 and a few other pathetic lackluster victories, if you want to call it that.

00:16:22.140 And otherwise, they just seem to hire some well-connected people for some really good money

00:16:26.600 to talk about how they're going to help the city while not actually doing anything.

00:16:30.980 But that's the usual course of these sorts of things.

00:16:34.700 And likewise, on a bigger scale, there's Economic Development Canada doing the same thing.

00:16:40.040 And they're taking our dollars and they're pouring them in.

00:16:42.320 Speaking of Nenshi, I haven't spoken to him a lot lately.

00:16:45.180 He's always been one of my favorite political punching bags.

00:16:48.240 I guess you could say he's been quiet lately.

00:16:49.660 No, no, no, no.

00:16:50.200 Too many people have missed his voice.

00:16:52.360 But as we saw in The Standard, it sounds like, you know,

00:16:54.160 our publisher Derek Fildebrand came up.

00:16:56.900 He's had a source within the NDP.

00:16:59.280 And it appears that Rachel Notley could be resigning probably within the next month or two,

00:17:04.940 you know, as we get into the fall session.

00:17:06.300 This isn't that surprising.

00:17:08.340 I mean, Notley's been in office for quite some time.

00:17:12.060 She was the premier, of course, for one term, then got, you know, lost an election.

00:17:17.340 Then she lost an attempt to get back into it.

00:17:20.320 So, I mean, she's tired out.

00:17:21.660 I can't see them.

00:17:22.620 I mean, a lot of people say she'll stick with it because they have nobody else.

00:17:25.140 Well, yeah, but eventually you have to turn it over and you have to try.

00:17:30.040 So, I suspect it's true.

00:17:32.520 She is going to go.

00:17:33.560 But then you start wondering who will they replace her with.

00:17:35.780 And then she's one of the names that pops up.

00:17:37.360 I see Marcel saying, don't speak of him, please.

00:17:39.300 Sorry.

00:17:39.760 I won't say his name too many more times or he might appear.

00:17:41.740 But, you know, it's one of the names that Fabio or otherwise known as Thomas Lukasik is another name that's bounced around.

00:17:49.120 Somebody who went into the political background, but he still beaks off from the distance on things.

00:17:54.060 You know, he wants to be involved.

00:17:55.320 He wants to feel important.

00:17:56.200 I wouldn't be shocked to see him throw his hat in.

00:17:59.020 And, yeah, there's any number of NDP members and so on from not least caucus that I could see me taking a run for the job.

00:18:07.840 But can we see anybody who's really going to take that party and run with it?

00:18:11.440 But I'll have to say his name one more time.

00:18:13.540 Ninchy, I could see him gaining category support.

00:18:15.660 But the problem is he doesn't he's not an NDP loyalist.

00:18:19.480 They I can't see him winning their leadership for a couple of things.

00:18:22.600 He's not a good team player.

00:18:23.860 He's not going to do well with the caucus.

00:18:25.420 He's not going to get support from the workers within the NDP.

00:18:28.520 That's why positions like mayor where you're kind of an individual work for him.

00:18:33.160 So the other thing is they want people to come up through their union ranks and all the rest of it.

00:18:38.520 So even though politically I could see it, he could be one that could put them over the edge.

00:18:41.780 I hate to say it, but there's still some people in Calgary that like that guy.

00:18:44.400 If he was leading the NDP, he could potentially pull those votes over to win Calgary.

00:18:49.760 I just can't see him taking or maintaining the NDP leadership, though, in order to do so.

00:18:54.080 And, of course, to be fair, he's never shown any interest in that.

00:18:56.380 It's just pure speculation.

00:18:58.060 But we know that guy isn't gone yet.

00:19:00.340 He's my age.

00:19:01.420 He's 52.

00:19:02.400 That's still pretty young in politics.

00:19:03.960 He's not giving up.

00:19:05.000 So we're going to see him surface somewhere.

00:19:06.840 Whether it's a run for the NDP leadership, again, I doubt it, but who knows?

00:19:11.740 About the time to start speculating now.

00:19:13.600 At least that's what we like doing.

00:19:15.720 You know, I mentioned earlier, so there's been that battle over C-18.

00:19:19.180 We can't put, you know, it's a shakedown.

00:19:21.620 The Liberal government has been bailing out legacy media outlets.

00:19:24.220 I mean, they've been outright, you know, taking millions and giving it to outlets.

00:19:27.560 And they thought another way we can do this is to put the screws to Google and Facebook, you know,

00:19:32.140 and start charging them for providing links. 0.79

00:19:34.360 It's ridiculous.

00:19:35.060 It was like charging a paperboy for delivering papers. 1.00

00:19:37.540 It was stupid. 1.00

00:19:38.700 And it backfired. 1.00

00:19:39.700 And it failed.

00:19:40.920 And now, though, we're paying the price.

00:19:43.700 Canadians can no longer see news links on Facebook and probably soon on Google.

00:19:49.260 And people say, oh, I never read my news on Facebook.

00:19:51.420 No, that wasn't the point.

00:19:52.280 It wasn't reading the news there.

00:19:53.500 That's how you found your way to it.

00:19:55.380 It was a tool.

00:19:56.640 And we've lost that tool.

00:19:58.500 But part of the battle now that Facebook didn't bluff, they said, you know,

00:20:00.960 we don't need to put these news links up.

00:20:02.800 And they stopped.

00:20:04.360 The government said, well, we'll get them back.

00:20:06.420 We'll stop advertising with Facebook because they spent money on Facebook ads.

00:20:10.040 Well, not all of them did, though.

00:20:12.700 If you're going to have a government boycott, guys, you've got to get all your little ducks in a row.

00:20:16.500 And they don't seem to have done that well.

00:20:17.420 But, again, we're talking about liberal competency, right?

00:20:19.580 So records at Meta Platforms Incorporated showed that, yeah, citizen services minister,

00:20:25.000 so cabinet minister Terry Beach, a liberal cabinet minister, is buying Facebook ads.

00:20:29.240 He's still paying, giving tax dollars to Facebook to buy ads, even though the government is supposedly boycotting it. 0.99

00:20:37.140 These guys are inept. 0.62

00:20:38.960 You know, and we're hearing that sort of speculation that Justin Trudeau may be at the end of his time as well. 0.99

00:20:44.460 And we'll see.

00:20:47.860 I think he's going to go.

00:20:49.300 I mean, there's people who really disputed that.

00:20:51.000 There was discussion on Twitter quite a bit ahead of that.

00:20:53.940 You know, is Trudeau going to go or not?

00:20:55.480 But, you see, I think, and I don't think it was planned.

00:20:58.380 I'm not that, you know, he's not that deep in whatever.

00:21:01.000 His marriage has clearly got issues going on.

00:21:03.340 There's a separation.

00:21:04.220 Things are going on.

00:21:04.940 But it gives him an out.

00:21:06.700 And, I mean, it wasn't a planned out, but he can use it.

00:21:08.400 Because right now he's floundering.

00:21:09.560 He doesn't know what to do.

00:21:11.560 He's won two minority governments back to back.

00:21:13.700 But they're not going to tolerate him winning a third minority or even losing the election, as it looks like he would right now.

00:21:19.300 And he's not brilliant, but he probably could have realized that, okay, shuffling cabinet didn't do it.

00:21:25.220 I just can't seem to gain traction in these polls.

00:21:27.360 People are saying he loves the job too much.

00:21:29.880 He's got too much ego.

00:21:30.840 He won't step aside.

00:21:32.300 I say it's the other way around. 0.90

00:21:34.140 He does have enough of a brain in that little head of his.

00:21:36.680 Not a lot, but enough. 0.90

00:21:37.760 To realize that if he runs again, he's going to get electorally spanked.

00:21:42.100 He's going to be punted out of that seat.

00:21:45.420 And it's going to be humiliating.

00:21:47.660 This way he could say, you know, I've done all I can.

00:21:50.680 And now I'm going to, I want to be fair to Canadians.

00:21:54.260 I want to be fair to my family.

00:21:55.920 And go spend time with them.

00:21:57.400 And he'll step back.

00:21:58.980 And he'll leave the mess for someone else to try and clean up.

00:22:03.320 But we'll see.

00:22:04.980 We'll see.

00:22:05.280 It's always speculation.

00:22:06.680 I got a feeling within the next couple of months we're not going to see Prime Minister Trudeau.

00:22:11.120 And some other people are saying, well, he won't call an election right now.

00:22:13.040 And he's like, no, he won't.

00:22:14.140 That's what I'm talking about.

00:22:15.100 The timing is about right, actually, if you're going to do it.

00:22:17.980 Because that gives two years, roughly, if you were going to hopefully maintain the Liberal government that long.

00:22:22.660 That gives one year, and that's how long these things take almost, you know, around now, or the better part of one, for them to have a leadership race, find and get whoever they want to have as a leader.

00:22:32.440 And it gives them a year to try and establish themselves before they have to go to the pools.

00:22:36.920 Because if he waits too long, then at that point, then, yeah, they don't have the timeline to do it.

00:22:40.820 And he's going to be in there for the end.

00:22:42.040 So right now would be the time when he'd be considering stepping back and getting somebody else in there.

00:22:48.480 Other people, yeah, there's speculation.

00:22:52.600 You know, somebody's saying he thinks the Trudeau separation is a hoax.

00:22:57.100 I don't know.

00:22:57.960 I don't think the conspiracies are that deep.

00:23:01.080 You know, love him or loathe him.

00:23:03.400 I think most of us here loathe him.

00:23:04.460 I know I certainly do.

00:23:05.740 But he is human.

00:23:06.680 He is.

00:23:07.600 And his relationships are real.

00:23:10.220 And I'm sure they have their ups and downs and good and bad.

00:23:13.240 And things just parted ways.

00:23:15.800 I can't see any political advantage in having that split happen and go on like that.

00:23:23.000 So, I mean, I just, no.

00:23:24.700 Sorry, guys.

00:23:25.200 I think he's going with it.

00:23:26.980 But it was certainly nothing planned.

00:23:29.500 You're always better off if you're in a political position to have a stable family unit going on.

00:23:34.120 It just looks better and it's less headache.

00:23:36.060 So, no, I don't think it's fake.

00:23:37.860 And I don't think that he wanted to go that way necessarily.

00:23:42.460 But who knows how long they've been having problems.

00:23:44.280 Here's an interesting one.

00:23:46.820 So, the federal court rejected a test case of quarantine orders.

00:23:54.540 So, you know, there's a lot of things hitting the courts.

00:23:56.600 I was talking earlier with how slowly Canada's court system works.

00:23:59.700 And it is with every challenge and with everything that happens within it right now.

00:24:04.240 Well, there was a case going forward, you know, basically saying charter rights were breached with a lot of the mask and vaccine mandates.

00:24:11.880 And they certainly were.

00:24:12.840 I mean, I don't think many people can look at that and say, no, you know, the rights weren't breached with the travel restrictions and things like that.

00:24:18.520 The question is whether it was a justifiable breach.

00:24:21.860 But what gets me now is the government saying, well, now, you know, this is all over.

00:24:27.240 And this is what the judge herself said.

00:24:30.000 I think it was her.

00:24:30.920 I'm sorry.

00:24:31.380 It's a name.

00:24:32.100 I can't pronounce.

00:24:32.880 It sounds feminine, but it could be a male.

00:24:34.920 It doesn't really matter.

00:24:35.720 What the judge said is there's no longer a live controversy.

00:24:39.580 The dispute has disappeared since mandates are no longer enforced.

00:24:43.100 Thus, we don't need to hear this case.

00:24:46.240 Well, hang on a minute.

00:24:47.680 We need it more than ever.

00:24:50.160 Just because it's done doesn't mean we don't still try it and find out whether it was worth doing.

00:24:57.400 I mean, that'd be like saying, well, the murder is done.

00:24:59.260 The guy's dead.

00:25:00.100 You know what?

00:25:00.400 Do we want to waste time in court and everything going over him?

00:25:02.920 He's not going to be any less dead, you know, for having done so.

00:25:07.180 Of course, we've got to put this through the courts because what happens the next time?

00:25:11.160 And we know there's going to be a next time.

00:25:13.940 That's why you run this through the courts now.

00:25:16.080 Even though the restrictions are gone, we have to evaluate this.

00:25:20.680 So we do have a basis the next time a government tries to do this to us all.

00:25:25.700 And that's what our courts are for.

00:25:27.520 But no, no, this court said, no, we're not going to re-examine this because it's done.

00:25:36.780 Well, no, guys, no.

00:25:39.000 We've got some big issues.

00:25:40.540 And you know what?

00:25:40.960 I mean, again, I'm not as far over with some of the people with some of the thoughts they had on it as to why vaccines were what or what the pandemic was.

00:25:49.600 But clearly, the government did mislead a lot of people.

00:25:52.480 It did overreact in a lot of ways.

00:25:54.300 It's certainly infringed on rights.

00:25:56.240 I still get people on my case, you know, because I've always talked about that.

00:25:59.060 I got jabbed twice.

00:26:00.320 I didn't gain more boosters.

00:26:01.540 I talk about those things.

00:26:04.360 But I've always, they get upset with me for even having done that, some people.

00:26:08.680 Hey, it was my choice.

00:26:09.840 There's where we get it clear, guys.

00:26:12.100 I support your choice.

00:26:13.200 I've always opposed the vaccine passports. 1.00

00:26:16.280 I always oppose the mandates.

00:26:18.420 I oppose the masking.

00:26:19.400 You want to go out and get vaccinated, though?

00:26:21.940 By all means.

00:26:22.940 You don't want to?

00:26:24.220 Don't.

00:26:25.040 We've got some people on the fringe, and I'll say that.

00:26:27.440 Fringe side saying, my, even participating in the vaccination shouldn't have happened.

00:26:32.240 Well, then you're infringing on my choice. 1.00

00:26:33.640 So kiss my ass. 1.00

00:26:35.000 Goes both ways, guys. 1.00

00:26:36.400 But I think we made choices based on a lot of bad information from a government, from

00:26:41.820 a government that, like I said, was overreacting.

00:26:43.820 I think there's a lot of questions to be asked about the amount of money they spent on those

00:26:47.420 vaccines.

00:26:48.120 Who did do well out of all that?

00:26:50.500 I mean, they're pushing for fall boosters to come up for this year already.

00:26:55.360 But as we've seen, what is it, only 6% of Canadians have gotten a booster in the last

00:27:00.780 six months.

00:27:01.640 We're done.

00:27:02.380 We're sick of it.

00:27:03.120 We're finished with it.

00:27:03.820 We're not listening to the medical experts on this one anymore.

00:27:08.300 We're tired of being told that we're supposed to be afraid.

00:27:10.620 We're tired of being pressured into taking medications we don't feel comfortable with.

00:27:15.340 So the next time this happens, and like I said, it's going to happen again, I don't

00:27:21.080 think people are going to be nearly as docile and compliant as we were last time.

00:27:25.900 We've been through this once before.

00:27:28.460 Lord help us.

00:27:29.580 If it turns out that it really is a bad virus that's going around that could kill people,

00:27:34.420 you know, without a proper vaccine or medication or quarantines and things like that.

00:27:39.160 What if it's something that is far, far worse than COVID ever was?

00:27:42.080 But now we've lost so much trust with the state that people won't cooperate.

00:27:46.960 And even then, I'll tell you what, I won't support mandatory orders.

00:27:50.860 You know what, if people were dropping in the streets from COVID, and they weren't,

00:27:56.620 if it was hitting young people, it never did, if it was killing healthy people, it never did,

00:28:02.780 people would have chosen to take on any mandates and things to try and avoid the spread of that disease.

00:28:10.720 They wouldn't need the gun to their head.

00:28:12.180 I know there's always individuals who wouldn't bother, but most people, believe it or not, aren't that bad. 1.00

00:28:17.520 A lot of people are really stupid, but they aren't necessarily all that bad. 0.99

00:28:21.880 Either way, we need to go into those things. 1.00

00:28:27.300 Alpert, after saying the judge said that if the mandates were properly declared,

00:28:30.320 they wouldn't have violated the Constitution.

00:28:32.060 No, not exactly.

00:28:34.500 Mandates like that violate it, period.

00:28:36.220 I think most judges agree.

00:28:37.440 It's just that they use Section 1, which is when you start inserting the word reasonable limits

00:28:43.480 or things like that, which leaves it very wide open to interpretation.

00:28:48.000 And then you can sort of set aside those things.

00:28:50.400 But it was definitely infringement.

00:28:51.700 When it came to travel, I mean, that was a clear infringement.

00:28:54.620 I mean, it's important to have a right of mobility or the right to assembly.

00:28:59.800 That's a big right.

00:29:00.880 That's a serious one.

00:29:02.240 It's an important one.

00:29:03.560 I mean, it might not seem as important now as it used to be.

00:29:05.900 The reason the right for free assembly was written into charters of rights across the world

00:29:10.740 in the democratic world was because governments, authoritarians, one of the things they never

00:29:17.720 want people to do is organize against them.

00:29:19.840 And the way they would have to do it, you know, days prior to social media or even telephones,

00:29:23.120 you'd have to all get together in the basement of a pub or at a barn or wherever you had to

00:29:28.060 and actually organize person to person.

00:29:30.040 And if the government could break up those organizing, the gathering or even unions,

00:29:33.700 things like that, they could stop it from happening.

00:29:36.520 That's why the right to gather with other people is entrenched.

00:29:40.000 That right was suspended.

00:29:41.360 We couldn't go to weddings.

00:29:42.320 We couldn't go to funerals.

00:29:43.780 One in a lifetime, you know, events, opportunity.

00:29:47.800 I mean, I guess it depends on the wedding.

00:29:49.780 You know, graduations, things such as that.

00:29:53.640 We lost those.

00:29:55.020 We had our right to assembly violated.

00:29:58.660 And that was suspended on the basis of section one.

00:30:03.700 You can't, no judge with a straight face should be able to look and say that the right wasn't

00:30:10.440 suspended.

00:30:11.000 It certainly was.

00:30:12.040 It certainly was.

00:30:14.460 Either way, yeah, we got a lot of scary stuff to look at in hindsight.

00:30:16.860 But there's a lot of misunderstanding.

00:30:18.060 People don't understand rights.

00:30:18.980 We take them for granted.

00:30:19.960 We are a spoiled country.

00:30:21.560 We have a lot of that.

00:30:22.560 We look at the Emergencies Act.

00:30:24.380 That was when our rights were suspended.

00:30:28.380 That's the point of the act.

00:30:29.900 Because I had people arguing with me, no, it's not.

00:30:32.400 Nothing was violated.

00:30:33.420 Yes, it was.

00:30:34.600 Yes, it was.

00:30:35.540 That's the point of something as extreme as the Emergencies Act is to say, this is so

00:30:39.500 important.

00:30:40.140 We need an act where we can set aside rights to get this under control.

00:30:46.000 It should be for only for something as extreme as true riots from coast to coast or alien 0.85

00:30:51.140 invasions.

00:30:51.800 And even then, I'm not sure if I'd trust the government to invoke it.

00:30:54.500 But the rights are suspended.

00:30:56.900 You suddenly lose that right to assembly, that right to travel.

00:30:59.920 In our case, rights, well, not we ever really have, but rights to property.

00:31:02.740 When our bank accounts were suspended and stolen, I shouldn't say ours, mine wasn't, but many

00:31:06.240 people's were.

00:31:07.160 This was not a minor thing.

00:31:09.180 Made Canada sound like a tin pot dictatorship.

00:31:12.400 But our rights, we take them for granted.

00:31:14.460 And so now, again, when we get to the point where we can look with hindsight, we have judges

00:31:17.820 saying, no, we aren't even going to re-examine what happened.

00:31:20.120 That's very distressing.

00:31:21.600 It's very problematic because it means we've learned nothing.

00:31:24.360 Well, we have, the judges haven't, or they don't want us to have.

00:31:28.960 And yeah, I don't think the next time, as I said, there'll be another time, people are

00:31:36.420 going to take it as well.

00:31:38.200 Plus, we're seeing the ramifications of it all now.

00:31:41.380 Things we warned about.

00:31:43.140 I mean, look at the inflation rate now.

00:31:45.720 Look at the stuff that happened with supply chains and how hard the state and the government

00:31:49.900 and the pathetic legacy media were in saying, no, it had nothing to do with the supply

00:31:54.080 chains. 0.93

00:31:54.320 Of course it did. 1.00

00:31:55.560 You morons locked people down for two years. 1.00

00:31:58.640 You shut down travel. 1.00

00:32:00.360 What do you think would happen?

00:32:01.500 It was a whiplash effect.

00:32:02.940 Eventually, the places that used to produce goods and services, those products got bunged

00:32:07.740 up.

00:32:07.960 They didn't make it through consistently.

00:32:09.700 They didn't make it through directly.

00:32:12.080 Prices for things spiked.

00:32:13.320 Other things ran out.

00:32:15.480 And we're still dealing with it.

00:32:17.700 Construction.

00:32:18.400 We got a lot of issues of why the housing crisis is happening.

00:32:21.920 But I mean, part of the impact on, again, development, expansion, and construction for a year and

00:32:27.520 a half and some, let's not pretend that didn't have an impact on it.

00:32:32.120 Another area.

00:32:33.140 Here's some data.

00:32:34.000 SecondStreet.org.

00:32:34.720 It's Colin Craig who runs that.

00:32:35.700 He's been on the show a number of times.

00:32:37.560 And this is an interesting one I saw.

00:32:40.600 So from Ontario Health, it indicates the number of patients who died waiting for surgery.

00:32:44.820 Now, this is the big hornet's nest open in Canada, but it's true.

00:32:48.000 Died waiting for surgery in 2022 to 2023 is up 49% from 2021, 2022.

00:32:57.060 And people say, well, if it was just a small amount, it could sound a lot higher.

00:33:00.820 Okay, well, let's get to those numbers.

00:33:03.040 2,100 people died waiting for surgery in Ontario in that period.

00:33:07.740 You know, a couple thousand people.

00:33:08.680 Let's talk about the people who died with something that's preventable.

00:33:12.000 All of those 2,100 died just because the timeline was too long?

00:33:15.200 No, probably not all of them.

00:33:16.900 But a lot did.

00:33:17.820 I mean, you don't have to be a doctor to know.

00:33:19.680 Time is of the essence.

00:33:20.880 When it comes to any kind of ailment, injury, the faster you can get diagnosed and treated,

00:33:25.940 the better your chances of survival or, you know, lack of true dire consequences.

00:33:32.680 Canada's health system is failing.

00:33:35.100 It has been for a while.

00:33:36.860 And it's access.

00:33:37.900 This highlights the problem.

00:33:40.360 This, we will declare an emergency over something that, again, that youth were, you know, immune to

00:33:46.400 and turn the country on its nose and we have thousands of people dying waiting for surgical care

00:33:52.240 because we're too stubborn to admit that Canada's socialized monopoly health care system is a failure 1.00

00:33:58.400 because we've built our stupid national identity around it. 0.99

00:34:02.880 Oh, you know, the greatest Canadian was the founder of Canada's health care system. 0.99

00:34:09.100 Look, we only share our system with North Korea and Cuba.

00:34:11.900 Think about that.

00:34:13.500 We've got to chip away at this.

00:34:14.680 People are dying, waiting for care.

00:34:17.000 Socialized medicine is rationed medicine.

00:34:19.720 That's always the problem when you get this sort of thing.

00:34:22.420 Sure, it's free.

00:34:23.740 But you know what it's worth to have free medicine when you're dead?

00:34:27.460 Yeah, nothing.

00:34:29.060 And people are fleeing the country to get care elsewhere.

00:34:32.380 One of the things I had, I believe it was when I had Colin Craig on, he talked about a lot of Canadian doctors

00:34:37.840 and health care professionals have been leaving Canada.

00:34:40.360 They're setting up shop in other countries.

00:34:41.860 So Canadian people are taking their dollars, leaving the country and getting Canadian practitioners to work on them outside of the country where they're allowed to pay for it.

00:34:51.240 Nobody's saying, not many, I'm sure not saying, nobody, you know, because that's where the conversation always goes.

00:34:57.540 Oh, you want credit card care?

00:34:59.260 You want people to die, you know, for lack of money and such as that?

00:35:02.700 No, that's not the case at all.

00:35:04.520 But we have to stop being so intransigent and stubborn with our system and realize that it's going to have to make some changes.

00:35:15.020 I mean, the cracks, these aren't cracks anymore.

00:35:16.680 These are people dying.

00:35:17.760 And the rate with which this is happening, like I said, in one year, the number of people dying waiting for care went up 49%.

00:35:24.200 That's an alarm bell, guys.

00:35:25.940 That's a big one.

00:35:26.960 And, again, you know, thousands of people dying.

00:35:29.720 So we'll light the world on fire over a handful dying. 0.87

00:35:32.860 But when it's truly something going on, when it comes to Canada's sacred health care system, we're terrified of even considering reform.

00:35:39.760 Okay.

00:35:40.280 I've been blathering long enough.

00:35:41.600 I see Mr. McTeague in the waiting area.

00:35:44.460 It looks like you're panting there.

00:35:46.100 I saw that you were going to be a little bit delayed, but you made it there.

00:35:49.620 We can still chat here before the end of the show.

00:35:51.780 So thanks for coming on, Dan.

00:35:53.400 Good to be here, Corey. 0.96

00:35:54.260 Sorry, Toronto traffic, parking lot, the whole darn town. 0.84

00:35:58.480 Oh, we understand. 0.89

00:35:59.840 Well, put you in the right mood for our chat.

00:36:01.520 You know, we still got 10 minutes here.

00:36:04.460 So you're with the Canadians for Affordable Energy.

00:36:06.740 And, boy, you've got to have a busy, busy time.

00:36:09.660 I mean, you're very outspoken on social media.

00:36:11.580 But, you know, energy costs, I mean, inflation in general, and, of course, energy costs impact all of it all the way down the line, are pressuring everybody.

00:36:20.740 But our government, I guess I'll just kind of start you there, seems to want to do nothing more than make things even more expensive for us.

00:36:27.740 More expensive and more confrontational in being expensive.

00:36:30.700 They're driven by an ideology, an ideology that basically says energy can be any price.

00:36:35.020 It doesn't really matter.

00:36:35.840 Canadians will go along with it as long as you can contrive and connive and tell them that the world is coming to an end.

00:36:42.280 I mean, I won't get into the science of this all, but the economics clearly indicates there's a big problem in this country.

00:36:47.820 You have a government that's allowed energy prices to go through the roof two ways.

00:36:52.460 There are green policies on carbon taxes, which, Corey, you've talked about many, many times.

00:36:56.720 And the second that's not discussed as much is the blocking of pipelines and regulations, which is discouraging investments leaving the country.

00:37:03.120 And with it, a drop in the Canadian dollar, which is only worth 130, 135 pennies to buy one U.S. dollar.

00:37:09.460 Corey, that adds significantly to the price of everything in terms of gasoline in your province, about 26 cents a litre.

00:37:16.560 My province, 28 in the Maritimes with a 15 percent HST, more like 30.

00:37:21.620 These are real factors driving the cost of living through the roof.

00:37:27.040 Yes, and you can talk about monetary policy and the government overspending and printing too much money and all these other things.

00:37:33.700 But we keep tap dancing around what is, in my view, the elephant in the room.

00:37:38.320 Even the Bank of Canada has to recognize now, finally, after two terms of saying gasoline is, in fact, driving inflation up and down.

00:37:47.180 When it's down, of course, the Liberals take credit for it.

00:37:49.260 When it's up, they're conspicuously silent, as we saw today, or I should say yesterday, when an announcement came that, in fact, inflation is up again.

00:37:56.000 The reality is this is a country blessed with an abundance of energy, and we are despoiling and ruining it for generations and undermining not just affordability, but I think the benefit and the gift that has been given to every Canadian of energy resources the world desperately wants, but which we have a few ideologues in Ottawa preventing it from happening.

00:38:14.060 Yeah, I mean, we are an energy powerhouse, or we should be.

00:38:17.680 I mean, the natural resources we're blessed with, whether it is the hydro in the east or the natural gas and oil we have in the west, but we have an ideologically driven federal government that doesn't want us to export it even.

00:38:28.640 I mean, not even talking about our domestic, you know, use of this, because it's kind of ridiculous that we have so many energy resources.

00:38:34.640 We pay such a high domestic price, but we have a prime minister telling us there's no business case to export it to other countries.

00:38:40.800 And then lying, as his Minister of Environment has done on many occasions, saying, you know, these are industries that are making tons of profit, let them pay their fair share rather than passing it on to consumers.

00:38:52.280 You know, I'm not surprised.

00:38:53.560 Maybe he's dangled in a few too many buildings and bridges and whatnot, but the reality is for most of us who have spent a bit of time in politics, some of us in the real private sector, in the real world, and those of us trying to struggle to make ends meet.

00:39:05.300 You know, I don't come from a family of great wealth.

00:39:08.400 My parents both lost their shirts back in the 1980s when the last Trudeau government spent so heavily that we wound up with 23, 24% interest rates.

00:39:16.440 I think the country is going down that road again.

00:39:18.900 And when you have leaders in this country who are determined not just to impose something they know cannot work.

00:39:24.680 Germany has proven that renewables do not work.

00:39:27.860 You know, France is having trouble having to, you know, look back at coal.

00:39:31.340 The UK is completely in a mess.

00:39:35.060 It wants to now get back into permitting leases to get natural gas.

00:39:39.400 Canada has all of these advantages, and yet we have a group of people in Ottawa, elites, committed to shutting down the country's resources, and as a result and as a consequence, shutting down our economy.

00:39:51.600 It's only a matter of time before another bond rating agency comes in, downgrades our credit.

00:39:55.880 And if you think, you know, 6% or 7% interest rates are tough to handle, wait until that happens and you have to pay 10% or 11%.

00:40:02.480 Then I think things will get very real.

00:40:04.260 And those here, my neck in the woods in Toronto, who live in, you know, fantasy world and believe their food is delivered by stork or by, you know, by pixie dust, will now have to get more real about the direction taken.

00:40:15.860 It's a very deliberate policy by this government to undermine the Canadian economy by throwing out everything that's good in favor of things they know did not work.

00:40:22.440 So, I mean, I believe citizens are catching on.

00:40:25.340 I mean, we see it in our pocketbooks.

00:40:26.580 We see what's happening.

00:40:28.360 And as you've said, European nations have certainly had to figure it out recently.

00:40:33.200 I'll ask the hardest question, though.

00:40:35.520 What can we do?

00:40:36.700 I mean, we know what the government should do.

00:40:38.400 How do we change this government from its ideological course, though?

00:40:41.400 They seem blind to it.

00:40:42.460 They have 25 months to continue down this path of destruction with the NDP and with their friends in the green.

00:40:49.440 And the bloc, of course, not interested in anything more than just saying, hey, we're here.

00:40:53.060 We're here to obstruct.

00:40:54.940 We're here at the end of the day to ensure that Quebec gets its fair share.

00:40:59.660 Look, I think the country is in the wrong, is definitely down the wrong path.

00:41:04.820 And to get away from there, we need a whole new way of approaching this.

00:41:08.820 I'm going to be very blunt about this because I've never been a member of any other party but the Liberal Party.

00:41:13.420 But my God, the Conservative Party today under Pierre Palliev reminds me a lot of my Liberal Party in the 1990s.

00:41:20.400 Practical, pragmatic, realistic, and saying these are the problems.

00:41:23.880 This is where we go and this is how we're going to get there.

00:41:26.480 To me, I can see a lot of Liberals of my generation, the ones who are still working,

00:41:30.960 the ones who are still out there busting their chops, going in that direction.

00:41:34.400 And I think that's something that the Conservatives should take very, very much to heart.

00:41:38.480 Don't mess it up.

00:41:39.800 We have one shot at this.

00:41:41.040 And the country needs a new leadership, badly, desperately.

00:41:44.200 We can't keep going the way we are right now.

00:41:47.200 Well, and we could be hitting other crisis within this next 25 months, particularly constitutionally or unity-wise.

00:41:53.580 I mean, the battle that's brewing up between Premier Daniel Smith and Environment Minister Gilboa.

00:41:58.900 I mean, I haven't seen that sort of language, you know, between a Premier and a federal government from the West anyways.

00:42:06.120 I mean, it's getting more reminiscent of René Levesque than anything else I've heard in a while.

00:42:12.000 I mean, this could really blow up in a big way.

00:42:14.220 Well, it is.

00:42:15.020 And it already, I think, has become very apparent.

00:42:16.940 Daniel Smith's not backing off.

00:42:18.080 Scott Moe's not backing off.

00:42:19.400 I suspect in Manitoba they go the same way.

00:42:21.300 But the one I've spent a lot more time working on and looking at has been the Atlantic provinces, the so-called Red Wall.

00:42:27.460 It's gone.

00:42:28.020 It's evaporated.

00:42:28.800 Overnight in Nova Scotia, when you saw a 30, 40 cent a litre increase hitting people who happen to be, you know, far less better off than the rest of the country on average.

00:42:38.080 When you start hitting them and impacting them and then saying, oh, here's a bit of, here's a couple of pennies to pay you back in terms of a rebate, which they know don't work.

00:42:47.100 When you start hitting consumers, you start making people poor, you force them to make decisions that they are not comfortable with.

00:42:54.620 I expect that the real blowback is going to come in provinces like Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, and Newfoundland.

00:42:59.860 When on election night, when that should happen, and I think Liberals know this, they lose most of their seats in that region of the country.

00:43:04.480 Then the rest of it will be a steamroll because I think here in Ontario, with some exceptions, I think we're going the same direction as well.

00:43:11.460 Yeah, well, ideals and green dreams or even family loyalty to particular parties tends to go out the window if you can't make the rent or the mortgage payment or you're worried about getting your kids through school or even buying groceries for some people.

00:43:22.580 So I could see a definite turnabout in the Atlantic provinces.

00:43:26.380 It's just my fear.

00:43:27.260 I mean, especially it just made me cringe when you mentioned it.

00:43:29.760 The amount of damage they could do in 25 more months, though, could be pretty excessive.

00:43:32.700 It can, and I think Canadians have to know that, and they have to be more outspoken.

00:43:36.760 You get a pollster calling, you tell them you're not happy, you're not going to support this particular coalition government.

00:43:41.720 I think when it gets to 40% and 45% from the pure polytheft conservatives, I think we may very well see Mr. Trudeau take a long walk off a surfboard in Tofino somewhere.

00:43:51.940 Yeah, I was speculating earlier that that might come pretty soon, but I mean, you know, when you look at the pool that this liberal party, I said it when I introduced before at the start of the show when you were coming on, I said, you know, you're a member from back in the days when liberals were pragmatic and sane.

00:44:06.760 Now it's a party dominated by ideologues.

00:44:09.080 I don't know where or who they might draw for a leadership that might turn things around, but I guess we could hope.

00:44:15.700 I mean, there's still people out there that might turn that party around a bit.

00:44:20.420 I don't think so.

00:44:21.540 The damage is done, and I think at this point it's trying to protect the 70 or 90 or 100 members you think you can keep by having a transition at the leadership level.

00:44:31.140 But if you're going to keep on the same dangerous path to economic perdition, good luck with that.

00:44:37.480 You might be reduced to a rump, the same which I saw in 2011.

00:44:41.400 There's significant consequences and blowback coming.

00:44:44.000 I think people see it every day.

00:44:45.580 Every time there's an interest rate increase, more and more people's noses go on the proverbial waterline.

00:44:50.780 Food prices are endemically inflationary, driven by energy prices to a large extent, which this federal government seems to be committed insanely at trying to raise.

00:44:59.740 We should be pulling back, removing those carbon taxes, hitting net zero hard and saying, if we can achieve it scientifically, fine.

00:45:07.880 If not, scrap it, because it's an idea that is extraordinarily pernicious to Canada and is likely to lead not just to economic dislocation, but potentially to a constitutional crisis on a scale I haven't seen in my lifetime.

00:45:20.200 And I've been around a few of them.

00:45:22.060 Yeah, well, I appreciate it.

00:45:24.400 I mean, we can keep pointing it out at least and letting people know and at least moving towards a better future, hopefully, with things.

00:45:32.920 And that's what you've been doing out there.

00:45:34.440 So before I let you go, where can people find you with the Canadians for Affordable Energy and then Gas Price Buddy and such?

00:45:40.960 Yeah, sure.

00:45:43.080 AffordableEnergy.ca is a site I often put my blogs up on.

00:45:46.560 And if you want gas price predictions, GasWizard.ca is probably the easiest one.

00:45:51.360 And if you need to get a hold of me on Twitter, Gas Price Wizard.

00:45:53.780 I'm usually there, usually having a little bit of fun with everybody.

00:45:57.180 Yeah, so likewise, Twitter is kind of my favorite playground too.

00:45:59.700 But there's some serious business goes on there as well.

00:46:02.260 So I appreciate you rushing in to come to talk to us today and the stuff you do, Dan.

00:46:06.660 I mean, as I said, you know, sure, it could be a long wait.

00:46:09.460 But, I mean, we can mitigate the damage by continually exposing this and pushing while we can.

00:46:13.920 And, well, just hope for the best.

00:46:16.140 Back at you, Corey.

00:46:16.880 Thanks for having me.

00:46:17.500 I really appreciate this.

00:46:18.420 All right.

00:46:18.780 Thanks, Dan.

00:46:19.860 Yes, that was Dan McTeague.

00:46:21.480 As I said, one of the last of a generation of liberals who used to be sane.

00:46:25.660 And there's still a few hiding out there and everything.

00:46:27.940 But things change, you know.

00:46:29.580 And, hey, you know, if the Conservatives are in too long and do the wrong things,

00:46:33.640 it's time to turn around on them and look at something different too.

00:46:36.320 But they're just so ideologically driven now.

00:46:38.880 I'm glad Dan got in for the tail end of the program there, though.

00:46:42.160 It's always good to talk to him.

00:46:43.080 As I said, check him out online.

00:46:44.460 He's very outspoken and a good voice to listen to on energy issues.

00:46:47.980 Because, hey, energy prices hit you everywhere.

00:46:51.200 All right.

00:46:51.500 That's all the time we've got today, guys.

00:46:54.180 It does go by fast, even when I'm babbling away for a guest who was a little bit delayed.

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Western Standard - August 16, 2023

Cory Morgan Show. Alberta will go its own way

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